Foxy Obama-style New media campaign for SBY

What’s with the name Fox and politicians? When Malaysian politicians wanted some help with their communications they turned to a company called Fox Communications (that was set up by some ex-journalists under the patronage of other ex-journalists).

Now, with the Indonesian Presidential elections around the corner, SBY has turned to Fox Indonesia. The mission of this Fox is to wage an Obama style campaign on the Net for SBY.

Like the Malaysian Fox, thie Indonesian variety is also closely related to politicians. Fox is run by Choel Mallarangeng, brother of Andi, the presidential spokesman.

Let’ hope the Indonesian Fox would outlast the Malaysian one since, Unspun hears, the latter hasn’t been doing quite well since its patron got booted of the power elite after Badawi stepped down as Malaysian premier.

This folks are paid to come up with something good and this is the best they can offer to the SBY camp?

Copying other people’s design is a bad idea.
First, if the site worked, it’s hard to be proud of it because you cannot really call it your own.
Second, it undermines the campaign to portray SBY as a leader.
Leaders lead, not follow (ing Obama).

Imagine if the next time SBY meets Obama, Obama says:
“dude, what’s up with you copying my template?”